Monday, February 9, 2015

Retreat weekend at home!

It was one of those weekends that I had the place to myself, so I got to sew as much as I wanted too! I've decreed 2015 to be my year of finishes, so this weekend I focused on making progress on a few projects that have been sitting around for awhile. They are also on my 1st qtr FAL list and my VMQG UFO list. I am bound and determined to get some of these things finished this year! I've decided that I have to finish one old project and make headway on a second old project before I can start something new. Let's see how long that lasts! Ha!

Saturday morning I worked on my BMQG round robin quilt. Still doing the SID, but it is progressing and I'm deciding on other quilting ideas as I go. I will need more thread, so I'll have to do a little shopping - maybe when I'm at QuiltCon? I'm Pleased with my progress here.

2015 Finish Along Qtr 1 - first finish!

But, I needed a finish! Back in November I started two tablerunners - I finished the blue one last week,
and now I've finished the coral one. So definitely not my usual colour, but it looks nice and springy, and I continued that idea by quilting daisies on it. Quilted and bound - it is done!

Last night I was still in the mood to piece, so out came the blocks I won at a VMQG block lotto several years ago now. Laid them out, shuffled them around, tried various smashing ideas, and then got to work. By the end of the night I had a finished top. Things didn't go as smoothly today. In piecing the back I mis- calculated and cut my backing about 5 inches to narrow. This didn't come to light until I was getting ready to sandwich and spray baste. Duh! You'd have thought I would have had that right seeing as I was piecing three extra blocks into the back and had measured it only half a dozen times! A little improv piecing and my back was wide enough. It is all basted and ready to be quilted!

I think that was a pretty successful weekend! Hope yours was at least half as good. I'll be linking up to The Needle and Thread Network later this week.

I am mighty impressed both by your resolve and the amount you have done. I like the colour of the table runners and the fmq brings them together nicely.it is a horrible moment when you realise that you mis-measured something. Glad you round a creative soloution